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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: spoke with confidence now of the narrow escape that Wilding had had
at his hands, of the things he would have done to Wilding had not that
gentleman grown wise in time. Sir Rowland, who had seen little of
Richard's earlier stricken condition, was in a measure imposed upon
by his blustering tone and manner; not so Vallancey, who remembered
the steps he had been forced to take to bolster up the young man's
courage sufficiently to admit of his being brought to the encounter.
Richard so disgusted him that he felt if he did not quit his company
soon, he would be quarrelling with him himself. So, congratulating
him, in a caustic manner that Richard did not relish, upon the happy
termination of the affair, Vallancey took his leave of him and Blake
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